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4. No entry will be accepted after August 23, 1948.
5. In all closed circuit races where there are less than six entrants int he class on the starting line and ready to start, the Race Contest Committee reserves the right to cancel that race and no prize money will be awarded. However, should the Race Contest Committee decide to run a race where there are less than six entrants on the line ready to start, only the same number of prizes that there are airplanes in the race, will be paid. No race will be run with less than four starters.
6. An entry which contains a false statement shall be considered null and void and the entry fee shall be forfeited.
7. In case an entrant will not personally pilot the airplane entered, the name of the pilot and his license numbers must be filled out in the entry blank.
8. Entry Blanks will not be officially be accepted by the Race Contest Committee unless complete information specified thereon is given.    The Race Contest Committee reserves the right to accept or reject all entries.

H ----- PAYMENT OF PRIZES
1: Prize money will be paid at the Pilot's meeting on the day following the close of the 1948 National Air Races in case no protests have been filed. If protests have been filed in this period, see K-4 below.
2. It is agreed that the National Air Races will deduct 2% from all prize money won by civilian pilot contestants, same to be paid to the Professional Race Pilot's Association.
3. All prize money beyond the number of actual starters in any event shall revert to the Cleveland National Air Races.
4. No prize money shall be paid to entrants who do not actually or officially finish the prescribed number of laps for the event unless of course they have been officially flagged down by the Chief Starter.
5. When entrants are officially flagged down, prizes shall be paid such entrants according to the positions held at the time the Race is declared finished.
6. There will be no duplication of prizes.

I -- REJECTION AND EXCLUSION OF
     ENTRANTS
1. The Race Contest Committee specifically reserves the right to reject or exclude any entrant for cause at any time and without obligation to rejected or excluded entrant or to anyone because of rejection or exclusion.
2. Among grounds for rejection or exclusion will be;(a) Fraud in representing, by his or her entry or attempted entry, that the airplane, engine or pilot is qualified to compete in that specific race when the facts are otherwise.
(b) Flying over grandstands at any time.
(c) Failure of airplane, engine or pilot to be qualified to compete in any race in which entry is sought or has been made.
(d) Airplane, engine or pilot being in an unsatisfactory condition to compete, having due regard for the safety of airplane, engine, pilot, mechanic, public or other contestants.
(e) Unfair or reckless competition; resorting to methods in competition that are unsportsmanlike. 
(f) Disobedience of F. A. I. rules or National Aeronautic Association rules or the published rules of the National Air Races or the Civil Aeronautics Administration's Air Traffic Rules and Regulations.
(g) Any race or races which are overcrowded. 
    In the exercise of such authority, selection will be made in order of the entrants' qualifying speed. Those to be rejected will be the entrants with the lowest speed in the qualifying trial for the race.
3. The right to exclude any contestant in any race is vested in the Contest Directors acting for the Race Contest Committee and will be exercised at the starting point of any of the races. The Chief of the Technical Committee will act for the Contest Directors in exercising this authority. 

J -- MARKINGS ON AIRPLANES 
  1. All racing members and color markings will be assigned or approved by the National Aeronautic Association. Assignment of race numbers or approval of color markings must be secured from N. A. A. prior to your arrival at the 1948 National Air Races.
  2. Numbers shall be painted by the contestant on the top of the upper left wing, reading from wing tip, and on each side of the fuselage, clear of the wing, in characters at least 36 inches high and in highly contrasting colors before official qualifying runs are made.
The airplane shall have no other numbering except that required by the Cvil Aeronautics Administration over 12 inches in height. The Race Contest Committee will rigidly enforce this requirement as to size and legibility of numbers.
  3. Airplanes entered in the Bendix Trophy Race shall have their racing number painted on the bottom of the lower right wing and on both sides of the fuselage in characters at least 36 inches high, clear of the wing and in highly contrasting colors.
  4. Entrants will be permitted to have advertising on their airplanes, provided that such advertising does not in any way obscure the racing numbers or the Civil Aeronautics Administration number and meets with the approval of the Contest Directors. 
  5. The Chief Timer shall have the right to require contestants to replace or change the size, type or location of their racing numbers, if, in his opinion they are not legible from the Timer's stand. He may disqualify them if his instructions are not carried out. 

K -- PROTESTS
  1. The right to protest is possessed by pilots only; except that the Race Contest Committee may always act by virtue of its office, even when no protests have been filed.
  2. Protests will be considered only when presented to the Entry Chief in writing within 12 hours after the completion of the Race and accompanied by the sum of $25.00 which amount shall be returned only if the protest shall be deemed to have been well founded or is do directed by the Contest Board of the National Aeronautic Association.
  3. Protest on eligibility of airplane, engine or pilot, must be filed before the start of the race. This does not prevent the Race Contest Committee from disqualifying on the grounds of ineligibility, after the start of the race